Links that I have found interesting for August 7th:
- PacketTrap Challenges CA And IBM – In reality, PacketTrap's closer competitor is SolarWinds, whose Orion network management tools are priced in the same range as PacketTrap's.
- Amazon CTO on Amazon, AWS, Clouds, Operations – Video from GridForum.nl – Architecture Reflects Organization
• each service has developers who are responsible for operating the service
• there is no operations team
• no better motivation for bug free code than pager going off at 4am** Amazon gets it! Ultimate dev2ops! **
- Staff issue gives CICS closer web connection – Strong transaction management is now more important than ever, but it no longer exists in back office isolation, so building links for CICS with the Web 2.0 world is important. So the target now is building an online CICS community around soltions.
- The CIO Weblog: MyCMDB: the cool BSM software with the funny name – I made fun of Managed Objects new social-networking influenced CMDB interface product myCMDB when it was announced last month… but Managed Objects are the ones laughing now. got a chance to look at the web-based CMDB interface… and it looks good.
- IBM to open Amazon EC2-style cloud service – IBM Fellow for Server Design, Jim Rymarczyk, told iTnews that Big Blue is getting so much interest in cloud computing services from customers that it is looking to take its Research Compute Cloud public to meet the demand
- Digital Fuel – Free IT Service Catalog Trial – The pre-defined library of IT services includes the service hierarchy and service offerings for the most common IT service lines offered by IT service organizations. Each service offering has a service description, SLA metrics, and suggested pricing.
- Digital Fuel Launches the Industry's First Pre-Defined IT Service Portfolio and Catalog Solution – Digital Fuel announced the industry's first pre-defined IT service portfolio and catalog, providing customers with immediate online access to a dynamic, fully populated catalog built on years of service management expertise and best practices.